Surprised no one mentioned this, but building a ship to fish?  There are shores on lakes that anyone with a stick, string and a hook can walk up to and fish.  Maybe that wasn't the best skill to include.

The idea isn't bad, but keep in mind that when you go to the blacksmith, you are using his tools and workshop.  He offers it free of charge, so what would be the incentive to own our own workshops?  Maybe if he charged rent for using the items, then you'd have reason to build your own, or perhaps rent from other players who own them.

Overall, I like it the way it is.  Making crafting too hard has a tendency to drive people away from doing them, and I think PS has about the right mix on difficulty vs. reward on tradeskills.

I think Climb would be an interesting skill to learn.

Yes, I would love to be able to climb down a few of the ladders in the game without overshooting them every time and taking a ton of damage.

You're right, Xillix, maybe I missed a nuance in the 5 pages of posts.  What you just described is much different than the starting premise of approved guilds.  Sorry, I am trying to be constructive.

The way I interpret the problem though, is how do you get an official story-line to the players, when multiple guilds are each running their own story.  Bringing in players to play defined roles is a great idea.  I still feel dealing with it at the guild level is the wrong place though, for the reasons stated throughout this thread.  How about dealing with it as in real-life?  Post for job positions the way you just did?  Positions could be posted on the forums or in-game.  In-game would be ideal, forums being the easiest.  Requirements for the position include having them submit their resume on how they would play the position.  The settings team could use the resumes to see which players would best fit what they want to do with the game world.  Once a selection was made, the player would be sent a supplement to their role and what knowledge they would have as that role and some guidance on what is needed.

And if I repeated something someone else submitted already and I missed it, my apologies.

A famous quote applies more often than not... "Perception is reality".  What it means is despite the way things really are, you have to deal with other peoples perception because for them it is reality.  Regardless of all the good intents to encourage one type of game experience, you will have to deal with the idea that you are showing favoritism to one group of players.  Xillix through out a few examples of how an approved guild could benefit by new game content.... what about all the other guilds?  Why aren't those events available to every guild in the game?

If you want a suggestion on how to make it work, scrap the idea of "approved" guilds and instead focus on a game mechanic that can be available to every guild, events that have to be completed by the guild and not just random members on their own.  Develop a system that lets a guild work towards a goal.

For example:

1. The game GM's devise a series of quests that are designed for members of a guild... any guild.
2. All Guild Leaders can check an in-game posting, a bulletin board open to everyone say.  This posting will give clues to how to start the quest line.
3. In order for the quest series to be completed, the guild leader will have to have signed up to it.  After that, all members of the guild are allowed to pursue the quest.  Only members of a guild actively working on a quest will ever see any of the quests.
4. Quests are accomplished in sequence by any member of the guild. 
5. When all the quests are done or the guild has reached the last part of the quest line, an event is triggered by the Guild Leader to maybe spawn a boss mob, or any kind of encounter that you feel is appropriate for PS.  Boss mobs have been done to death, other things can be done.
6. The rewards could be gold, items, or even titles for the members of the guild.  Or perhaps a guild board on the forum or in-game that tells of all guilds achievements.  Maybe the first one to complete the quest gets an in-game area dedicated to them, a plaque or something.

This would be fair and open to everyone, would remove any kind favoritism, and then the only thing you'd have to deal with is non-guild members saying there is extra stuff for guild members, but the quests should be designed to be accomplished by a group of people, and not a solo player.

Quote from: MustangMR on May 29, 2008, 10:56:52 am

There's not much reason to use the bank.  Tria don't weigh anything as far as I can tell, and you can't store items in it.  Just keep your money on yourself and you won't have to worry about a bug eating it all.

And what if you meet some robbers on your way?

What about bank robbers? (personally I'd take my chances against players vs. developers... at least in alpha).

Well, I understand everyone's desire for new player races, but is that the best thing for PS?  Shouldn't those new races be backed up with appropriate new zones as starting locations to keep everything in context?  Do all the races fit within the context of the current zones?  Since PS is about roleplaying, for someone to play these new races their story always has to start with they left their home area to go to the city.  Is that always good?  What about the role playing of a character who never wants to go into the current zones for one reason or another?

Just a thought.  I know the player races are a big draw, just considering some of the side effects of maybe jumping ahead too fast.

Well, despite all attempts to drive role playing, PS is still a game.  I enjoy playing every aspect of a game I can find, from fighting to crafting to enjoying the view now and then.  It keeps everything kind of fresh and whenI get tired of one aspect I move to another.  Developers spend a lot of time putting material in it, so as a player I feel compelled to play it all.  I usually want to experience everything a game has to offer and that usually means having to reach high levels of statistics to be able to get there.  Sometimes I'm satisfied with knowing I just got there, other times I want to beat it.